狱 — Chinese character
狱
yù
prison, jail; case; lawsuit
- Pinyin
- yù
- Radical
- 94 ⽝ (Dog)
- Strokes
- 9
- Components
- 犭 讠 犬
- Formation
- ideographic — A guard dog 犭 talking 讠 to a prisoner 犬
- Traditional
- 獄
Common words with 狱
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 监狱 (監獄) | jiān yù | prison |
| 地狱 (地獄) | dì yù | hell; underworld; (Buddhism) Naraka; (coll.) (of humor, jokes, content etc) extremely dark or morally transgressive |
| 入狱 (入獄) | rù yù | to go to jail; to be sent to prison |
| 出狱 (出獄) | chū yù | to be released from prison |
| 越狱 (越獄) | yuè yù | to break out of prison; to jailbreak (an iOS device etc) |
| 炼狱 (煉獄) | liàn yù | purgatory |
| 牢狱 (牢獄) | láo yù | prison |
| 狱警 (獄警) | yù jǐng | prison officer |
| 下狱 (下獄) | xià yù | to imprison |
| 狱卒 (獄卒) | yù zú | jailer (old) |
| 冤狱 (冤獄) | yuān yù | unjust charge or verdict; miscarriage of justice; frame-up |
| 牢狱之灾 (牢獄之災) | láo yù zhī zāi | imprisonment |
English words written with 狱
Data: Make Me a Hanzi (Arphic Public License (graphics.txt); LGPL-3.0-or-later (dictionary.txt)); Unihan Database (Unicode License v3); CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.